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apnoeic

apnoeic is the alternative spelling of apneic.

Meaning of apneic

Adjective

apneic (comparative more apneic, superlative most apneic)

  1. Exhibiting or relating to apnea: no longer breathing
    • Rarely (in cases which trouble us all) our new tools find themselves applied to bodies which in any prior human era would have become apneic in seconds, pulseless in minutes, rigid in hours, and putrid in days[…].1994 March 11, Donna Bergen, “On Brain Death”, in Chicago Reader

Forms of apnoeic

comparativemore apnoeic
superlativemost apnoeic

Questions about apnoeic

What is apnoeic the alternative spelling of?
Apnoeic is the alternative spelling of apneic.

Words near apnoeic in the dictionary

  1. APNIC
  2. apnoea
  3. apnoeae
  4. apnoeal
  5. apnoeas
  6. apnoeic
  7. apnosticism
  8. APNS
  9. apnœa
  10. apnœal
  11. apnœic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: apnoeic (page history and authors); apneic (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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